DNS poison? Yum tummy ache?

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> 
> My system disk picked Friday to die so hard that the BIOS hangs
> during POST attempting to identify it as a disk. Naturally, the
> weekend I need to restore things on a new disk, is the weekend
> the fedora infrastructure is shot and livna doesn't have nvidia
> drivers built :-).
> 
> All I wanted to do for now was "yum erase" some things after the
> initial install, but it can't even do an erase without valid metadata
> which it can't download (I'm guessing it will work if I disable all
> the repos first :-).
> 
If you want to remove specific packages, you can use the RPM command
directly. But it is not as nice as using yum, because it will not
offer to remove the packages that depend on the RPM you are removing.

Mikkel
-- 

  Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

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